时间:2018-12-30 作者:英语课 分类:初级商务英语听力2006


英语课

Hewlett-Packard announced that private investigators 1 that they hired to find the source of leaks to the press broke the law as part of their research. The investigators pretended to be Hewlett-Packard board members in order to convince phone companies to turn over private phone records of journalists from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and other publications covering the hi-tech world. According to an HP spokesman, "We are absolutely horrified 2 that the records of journalists were accessed without their authorization 3." Chairwoman of the HP board Patricia Dunn, who ordered the investigation 4 into the leaks, said that she was "appalled 5" by the news, and resisted calls for her resignation. The California Attorney General's office is investigating the incident.



n.调查者,审查者( investigator的名词复数 )
  • This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
  • The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》
a.(表现出)恐惧的
  • The whole country was horrified by the killings. 全国都对这些凶杀案感到大为震惊。
  • We were horrified at the conditions prevailing in local prisons. 地方监狱的普遍状况让我们震惊。
n.授权,委任状
  • Anglers are required to obtain prior authorization from the park keeper.垂钓者必须事先得到公园管理者的许可。
  • You cannot take a day off without authorization.未经批准你不得休假。
n.调查,调查研究
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
v.使惊骇,使充满恐惧( appall的过去式和过去分词)adj.惊骇的;丧胆的
  • The brutality of the crime has appalled the public. 罪行之残暴使公众大为震惊。
  • They were appalled by the reports of the nuclear war. 他们被核战争的报道吓坏了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
adapiforms
Agiokampos
airport environment
atinga (nigeria)
attentats
auxotab
bacterial leaf spot of tobacco
bascine
bastard sugar
bifurcating box
bihydroguret
broken top-chord
capitalistic market economy
Caraga B.
children chain
chupot
connection block
control sequencer
corporate asset funding
cream-filleds
cross-bred
csns
customer-driven philosophy
D/D (demand draft)
Dilcit
District Law
drl
explain
fall short of what is needed to cover the debts
flase setting
frictional-resistance
fruit grader
gas loaded electrode
Gog and Magog
Goss process for the continuous casting of metals
Govǐ Altayn Nuruu
Guenther's oparation
hami
Hawaiian activity
honeymooners
hr department
inclosure of land
interelectric
journey report
lamonts
Lasha
Laski
lataniers
lath-hammer
limited stability
liquid hydrogen loading valve checking ladder
logic base
low hurdles
low potential source
LPG transportation
moan
money spiders
mortagage
negative glass-rod phenomenon
nevus unius lateralis
Newton-Cotes
nitrocumene
nodi lymphaticus
non-industrial
nystafungin
photostethoscop
phthalylsulfamethoxypyridazine
pre-excellence
pregnancy jaundice
primary space vehicle
principal fiber
prismatic square
professional-service
proteams
protoplasmic fibre
reregulations
runnin'
schuilingite
Shirley opener
situation-dependent
static sensitivity
stone classification
stuccoists
support pillar
tame
tax exempt export
technoids
tergopleural
trim squirt
tumour-bearing
unboiled silk
unprofessionalising
unprogrammed stoppage
Verrucomicrobium
wave making
web diameter
what do you think of...?
wolffiellas
wussiness
yak butter
yin-yang categorization of natures and tastes
zivotas